“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what the world needs most. It is not complicated, but it takes courage.”– Pablo Casals

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”– John Irving

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."– e. e. cummings

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”– Robert Ingersoll

“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage or principle.”– Confucius

“We gain strength and courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face – we must do that which we think we cannot.”– Eleanor Roosevelt